- cross-posted to:
- mrlovenstein@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- mrlovenstein@sh.itjust.works
Bonus Panels


I’m finding this happening in person as well. Why does your restaurant refuse to list prices on the menu, tv menu screen, and take out menus? This is fast food, not fine dining. Why are you hiding this from your customers?? I just want tacos!
Because all that data makes them billions.
You are the taco.
I wish. I’m talking about single location family owned stores. If my little “los zapatos” or “burro burrito” were on the take, I feel like they’d expand
Because people are more likely to buy impulsively if they don’t see the price. I don’t go places like that because I don’t encourage manipulative bullshit.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.
Me: Show me your menu.
Them: Not without all this info.
Me: No. I’ll eat someplace else.
Them: Shocked Pikachu face.
Me: turns on Desktop mode “What is this app you speak of? I’m a desktop computer.”
Website: “Right you are, here’s the menu.”They do know you are on a mobile phone, due to your screen size and touch input, which are data points your browser automatically reports, even in desktop mode.
Try here: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
This was interesting, thank you.
I wonder why it got my GPU wrong, maybe that is a Firefox protection, or maybe just an error. It said Radeon R9 200 Series, way older than my current card
Firefox do fake your GPU model, yes.
That’s part of the tracking protection. You still need to tell that you do have a GPU, for various reasons (hardware acceleration, etc.), so it provides a generic one, the same for everyone, so it cannot be used for tracking.
I went to a restaurant that had qr codes on the table to download an app. I asked for a menu and they don’t have any.
I just fucking left. Fuck that.
This type of malarkey exploded in popularity in the UK during COVID, mostly due to chains trying to make money from data during tough times.
Most of the time was just a multi-megabyte PDF to download (with a double digit percentage of it being outdated) and everybody hated it.
Some still insist on it and wonder why they’re going bankrupt. But if there’s one thing the British hospitality industry does well, it’s… not hospitality. At least not when combined with technology.
Same thing, but the waiter took my order directly without going via their website/app/whatever-the-fuck-was-behind-the-qr-code when I refuse to use their online system as I had already seen their menu outside and knew what I wanted.
Funnily enough about 5 minutes later two people sat in the table next to mine and they also asked to order direct from the waiter who commented to them “Yeah, we actually have quite a number of people who don’t want to use the online system”.
Mind you, I’m in a country where that shit isn’t at all common and it just comes out as them trying to skint on service and most places I’ve seen that opened up with digital ordering systems ended up closing down after a while.
I bet that if they didn’t give people the option to order via the waiter their business would’ve already gone down.
How big was the app? Several hundred megabytes?
Let me guess, they don’t have customer WiFi
They do: The current password is on the menu.






